When referring to a book in an APA paper, how do I write this? Do I only write the book name, only include the authors, or both book name and authors? Do I italize the title?

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Answer 1

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

In APA formatting (MLA, too), book titles are italicized or underlined. It looks to me that your sentence would include only the book's title, but the all the book's information would be included in your reference list at the end of the paper.

Use the links at the left on that webpage as a table of contents to find what you need.

Answer 2

Do you mean in the text or in the reference list? In-text, you use the author's name and the year of publication: (Brown, 2016). In the reference list, you use the author's name, the title of the work (including the name of the publication if it's an article in a journal, etc.), and the date. The name of the book or publication is italicized (or underlined). The title of an article is in quotation marks.

Answer 3

The book title is NOT listed in-text, only in the reference list. In-text, use only the author's name and the date of publication: (Lorant, 1968). In the reference list (and I will capitalize what should be italicized or underlined if we were using word-processing:

Lorant, S. (1968) THE GLORIOUS BURDEN. New York: Harper & Row